Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-01
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zens.
There is a good opening for a bank at
Bowen.
before.
'Open limit is given at faro play at
Omaha.
Wayne is passing through a hard coal
famine.
Shelled corn brings 10 cents on the Madi-
son market.
A new depot is being added to the attrac-
tons at Ord.
The coal vein near Elnlwood is five feet
thick.
The Legislature will be asked to pave the
streets in Fremont.
Lucy Parsons will tell Omaha citizens how
to Kill one and another this week.
An Episcopal church will probably be built
in Chadren before spring.
1t is said that nearly every town in the
state is expecting a new railroad ia the
spring.
Tecumseh has finally secured a board 10
trade, and now the citizens don't know what
to do with it.
Aurora ia offered an extension Of the Kan
sas City & Omaha road for bonus OF $50,
BOO.
The Arcadia Gazette attempted to ELL a
long felt want aud succeeded In starting a
cemetery.
Leigh now has telegraphic communication
with Omaha, Fremont, Columbus and Nor
folk.
M n.1.n .r,,o ,,vrac4 that Sta,u ha
at once taken to have a school started in that
town.
The commissioners Of Cunning county have
placed the bond Of the county attorney at So
0Oe.
Register L. F. Ashby entered upon his Off
cial daties as register at Bloomington ON
Wednesday.
Stock hogs are reported as advancing in
value on account of the losses in the early No
vember storms.
The Union Pacific railroad is paying cash
for right Of way for a branch road up the
North Platte valley.
A tiny boomlet for Judge Reese as a dark
horse in the senatorial race is running loose
in Nance county.
Mayor Boyd, Of Omaha, las leased orc OF
the three reservoirs OF the KeGrney canal and
viii harvest a large quantity of ice from it.
The first annual meeting of the board of d.
rcctors OF the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska
railway was held a. Fairbury on Monday.
An Iowa wagon aud carriage manufacturer
is about to engage in business in South Sioux
City.
Marshal Beach charges Officer Kizer, Of Lin
coin, with having received brides, neglecting
his duty, and 'stool sG" members Of the
force with a revolver.
Articles of incorporation of the Fremont,
Elkhorn and Missouri Valley railroad were
filed with the county clerk Of Adams county
at Hastings on Monday.
Robert Steward, a mulatto IN Omaha, shot
his wife, a co.orad woman, in their home on
Friday morning. The woman is not ex-
pected to recover
a perfect glut OF ore at the Omaha reduc-
ton works is reported and unless the works are
enlarged Black Hills miners will be compelled
to go elsewhere for a market.
j. II. Hamilton, sheriff of York county,
brought to the Lincoln penitentiary Thursday
Martin Ishmael and Charles MAthery, sent UP
for two years for shooting and cutting.
Sheriff Lane Of Saline county was in Lin
coin Wednesday on his way back home from
Cortland, where he captured a lunatic that
had escaped from the county poor house.
Fred Witte, the man who laid out on the
prairie for eighteen hours Friday and Satur-
day morning at Oakland is in a very critical
condition. He is considerably bruised all
over.
There are rumors that the Wayne postoflice
will probably be made a thira-class office Jan
uary l., and the salary fixed at $1,000. The
business done there is said to justify the
change.
Mrs. Mcssmore, the woman who procured
$40 worth Of goods from Falconer on 3 forged
order, was sentenced by Judge Stenberg, at
Omaha, on Monday, to thirty days in the
county jail.
The Woman's Christian Temperance unions
Of the state are circulating petitions to be
presented to the legislature asking for more
stringent laws for the punishment of crimes
against women and girls.
The normal school board at Lincoln closed
the semi-annual meeting Thursday and the
members returned home. They report
the school in excellent condition. There are
47G students in attendance.
Hastings has subscribed $4,000 Of the so,
900 required TO start a factory for the manu-
facture OF a new road scraper. The ~patentee
Is a native Of the town, and he naturally
thinks there are millions In it."
Several fine brick buildings will be built in
the spring at Bloomington, among them a
Lutheran church. The town is preparing for
a boom. Among the industries most needed
are a creamery, a broom factory and a can
ming establishment.
At Unadilla, on Monday, while the early
freight was switching out some cars, a brake
man, o. w. Raymond, was hanging on the
side of a car and was struck by the stock
chute, knocking him down and badly injur-
ing him internally. 1t is thought he will re-
cover.
The Loup City Roller Mil company has
filed articles of incorporation In the Office OF
the secretary Of the state. The capital stock
is $50, 600 in shares Of 500 each, and the in
corporators are s. d. ID. Emerson, w. II.